[T]here is one and only one way to possess that in which we are defective, therefore that which we need, therefore that which we want. Become it.

I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: “It was the footnotes”.

There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

To die on a dying Earth - I'd live, if only to weep

Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.

As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.

To act in a way both sexist and racist, to maintain one's class privilege, it is only necessary to act in the customary, ordinary, usual, even polite manner.

The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too.

How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil.

I'm not a girl. I'm a genius.

Rejecting predatory capitalism in America is a way to respect and honor America.

I understood that no one could have lobbed such a stinging wad of shame out into the world without having a considerable personal reserve of it to draw on.

There's a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don't.

All the money you made will never buy back your soul.

I've been around the block a couple of times, and the guy I am now is the guy I like to be.

They kept saying 'It's sushi-grade!' And I'm like... 'Put some soy sauce on this. Get me some rice. And cook it. And then get me out of here.

It's not enough to be against something.

Hillary Clinton is a dead fish when it comes to being entertaining and alive. Without a prompter and a written script, she's nothing.

We find real joy when we keep the Savior the focus of the season.

If we could see the whole truth of any situation, our only response would be one of compassion.